New Season, New Leaf (EBONY)
08-29-2014, 11:22 AM
Val stood downwind of the gathering, chest uncomfortably tight. She struggled against allowing her breathing to become frantic, reminding herself that calm and collected was much preferred to blind panic. What was she doing here? She should never have come back! She'd found her niche in life, and even if it was equal parts hard work and struggle, she'd settled. What was it about these memories that kept dragging her mind back to the rock fields and the lake side, to the home she'd left behind? It was hardly sunshine and daisies. She'd heard the call and realized in one breath that she'd found her way back to Ebony lands, and in the next that she had turned to heed it. Perhaps it was her last conversation with Sigmarr, which haunted her like an angry wraith. How could she had left him on those terms, so... enraged at her? She couldn't remember ever seeing him that angry, not even when they'd bickered with Kass when they were young. She drew air into her lungs, letting it's muggy humor weigh her down before she convinced herself to take flight. She let the scent of home overwhelm her. It was her home, she convinced herself, whether she wished it or not. Sig had been right. Where was the honor in forsaking those who loved you? She had never found her mother, and it had been an unhappy day when she realized she was doing exactly as Raisa had. Like mother, like daughter, she thought with a dry humor. The memory of her soot-coated mother still left a sour taste in her mouth. How could she miss someone like that? But in the same breath it gave her faith that perhaps her siblings missed her too, and that they might even forgive her for her absence. She took careful steps forward, conscious of all the ways she had changed and uncomfortable with them. She waited with desperate baited breath, wondering who might notice her first. |
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